讲座和研讨会
“Sound and Movement in Mourning: The Regulation of Vocal and Bodily Expression in Times of Emotional Crisis.” 16th International Conference on the History of Science in East Asia (16th ICHSEA), Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt/Main (Germany), 21–25 Aug. 2023.
“Sound and Movement in Mourning: The Regulation of Vocal and Bodily Expression of Emotion in Early Chinese Death Ritual.” XXIVth Biennial Conference of the European Association for Chinese Studies (EACS), Palacký University, Olomouc (Czech Republic), 24–27 Aug. 2022.
“Multiple Values in Conflict? Revisiting Exegetical Differences in the Interpretation of Lunyu (Analects) 3.25.” 12th International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS 12, first virtual ICAS edition), International Conference Center, Kyōto Seika University (SEIKA), Kyōto (Japan), 24–27 Aug. 2021.
“Moral Questions: Human Nature and Moral Agency in Chinese Traditions.” 11th International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS 11), Kamerlingh Onnes Building & Lipsius Building, Leiden (The Netherlands), 16–19 July 2019.
“Light to the World: Visions of Enlightened Rulership in Xunzi and Related Early Texts.” 33. Deutscher Orientalistentag (33rd German Congress of Oriental Studies), Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena (Germany), 18–22 Sept. 2017.
“Death, Mourning, and Mental States: Early Confucian Texts on Mortuary Concepts, Practices, and Affective Behavior.” 10th International Convention of Asian Scholars (ICAS 10), International Exhibition and Convention Centre (CMECC), Chiang Mai (Thailand), 20–23 July 2017.
“Kinds of Love in Buddhist Contexts: Reframing Meaning and Translational Hermeneutics.” When the Himalaya Meets with Alps: International Forum on Buddhist Art and Buddhism’s Transmission to Europe (Dang Ximalaya shan yu A’erbeisi shan xiangyu: Fojiao yishu ji fojiao zai Ouzhou de chuanbo guoji gaofeng luntan 當喜馬拉雅山與阿爾卑斯山相遇：佛教藝術暨佛教在歐洲的傳播國際高峰論壇), Hotel Miguel Angel, Madrid (Spain), 27–28 Aug. 2016.
“Travel Experience/Travel Metaphor: Narrative and Lyrical Voices in Time and Space.” Biennial Conference of the Association of Chinese and Comparative Literature (ACCL), Fudan University, Shanghai (China), 18–20 June 2015.
“The Modernity of Ancient Style Verse and Visual/Poetical Dialectics.” International Symposium Back into Modernity: Classical Poetry and Intellectual Transition in Modern China, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt/Main (Germany), 4–5 July 2014.
“Text Structure and Philosophical Implications of Zhou gong zhi qin wu (The Duke of Zhou’s Zither and Dance).” Qinghua jian yu Shijing: Guoji xueshu yantaohui 【清華簡與《詩經》】國際學術研討會 (International Conference on the Tsinghua Bamboo Strips and Book of Odes), Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong (China), 1–3 Nov. 2013.
“The Dialogical Structure of Chinese Canonical Texts: Social-Relational Modes of Language and Thought before and in the Classics.” International Conference Confucian Canon Studies and Its Social Applications, University of Trier, Trier (Germany), 27–28 July 2013.
“Psycho-Philosophy in the Guodian Yu cong er (Collected Sayings, Two): The Morality of Emotion, Affective States, and Personality Traits.” XIXth Biennial Conference of the European Association for Chinese Studies (EACS), Paris Diderot University, Paris (France), 5–8 Sept. 2012.
“The Sense of Order in Text Architecture: Liu Xie of fu bi (‘Contiguity and Coherence’).” XIXth Biennial Conference of the European Association for Chinese Studies (EACS), Paris Diderot University, Paris (France), 5–8 Sept. 2012.
“Lesen und Sehen: Traditionelle Quellen zur chinesischen Kunst” (Reading and Seeing: Traditional Sources of Chinese Art). Invited lecture, Institute of East Asian Art, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg (Germany), 13 June 2012.
“Qingxu de zhixu: Guodian Xing zi ming chu yu xianguan chutu wenxian zhong de yuyan he xingqing” 情緒的秩序：郭店《性自命出》與相關出土文獻中的語言和性情 (The Order of Emotion: Language and Affectivity in the Guodian Xing zi ming chu and Related Excavated Texts). Jianbo, jingdian, gushi: Guoji luntan【簡帛‧經典‧古史】國際論壇 (International Symposium on Bamboo Strip Writings, Canons, and Early History), Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong (China), 30 Nov.–3 Dec. 2011.
“Konzepte, Sprache, Visuelles” (Concepts, Language, Visuality). Sinologische Vorträge (Lectures in Chinese Studies), Institute of Chinese Studies, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg (Germany), 22 June 2011.
“Xunzi yin Shi de fangshi yu qi bianlun xue de guanxi” 荀子引《詩》的方式與其辯論學的關係 (Xunzi’s Technique of Quoting the Shi and Its Relation to His Principles of Disputation). Diqi jie Zhongguo jingxue guoji xueshu yantaohui 第七屆中國經學國際學術研討會 (7th International Conference of Classical Studies), Department of Chinese Literature, National Chengchi University, Taipei (Taiwan), 16–17 Apr. 2011.
“Shijing yu ‘fouding shixue’: Cong xinli yuyongxue de jiaodu fenxi Shijing foudingci de yongfa” 《詩經》與“否定詩學”：從心理語用學的角度分析《詩經》否定詞的用法 (The Classic of Poetry and Negative Poetics: An Analysis of Negation in the Classic of Poetry from the Perspective of Psychological Pragmatics). Zhongguo shige chuantong yu wenben yanjiu guoji luntan 中國詩歌傳統與文本研究國際論壇 (International Sympoium on Poetic Legacy and Textual Studies in Pre-Modern China), Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong (China), 4–5 Dec. 2010.
“Is ‘Art for Art’s Sake’ Possible in Early Chinese Music? Form and Feeling in the Service of Extra-musical Ends.” 15th International CHIME Conference: The Music of China and East Asia. Theory versus Practice, Goetheanum, Dornach (Switzerland), 24–28 Nov. 2010.
“When, How, Why, and What Should We Feel?—The Problem of Emotion in Early China.” ERASMUS Lecture, Ca’ Foscari University Venice, Venice (Italy), 26 Nov. 2010.
“What Can We Know?—Conceptions of Knowledge in Early China.” ERASMUS Lecture, Ca’ Foscari University Venice, Venice (Italy), 24 Nov. 2010.
“Metaphors and Metonymies of the Mind.” ERASMUS Lecture, Ca’ Foscari University Venice, Treviso (Italy), 22 Nov. 2010.
“Perception, Emotion, and Epistemology in Early China.” ERASMUS Lecture, Ca’ Foscari University Venice, Venice (Italy), 22 Nov. 2010.
“Ist der Mensch verantwortlich für seine Gefühle? Emotionen in Dong Zhongshus Konzept der menschlichen Natur” (Are Humans Responsible for Their Feelings? Emotions in Dong Zhongshu’s Concept of Human Nature). 31. Deutscher Orientalistentag (31st German Congress of Oriental Studies), Philipps University Marburg, Marburg (Germany), 20–24 Sept. 2010.
“What Were the Poems Used for? Technique and Function of Quotation and Allusion in the Kongzi Shi lun.” International Workshop Orthodoxy and Schools of Thought: Changes in the History of Confucian Studies, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Munich (Germany), 24–25 Juli 2010. “The Problem of Desire: Pro Attitudes, the Seeking System, and the Trauma of Disorder in Early Chinese Socio-Political Thought.” XVIIIth Biennial Conference of the European Association for Chinese Studies (EACS), University of Latvia, Riga (Latvia), 14–18 July 2010.
“Appreciation and Judgment: Rhetoric of Evaluation in the Kongzi Shi lun.” Invited lecture, International Symposium on Excavated Manuscripts and the Interpretation of the Book of Odes, University of Chicago, Chicago (USA), 12–13 Sept. 2009.
“Lament and Praise Songs (yintan qu): Some Notes on an Early Chinese Song Genre.” 14th International CHIME Conference: Chinese and East Asian Music, Musical Instruments Museum, Brussels (Belgium), 18–22 Nov. 2009.
“Affekt oder Krankheit? Emotionen und verwandte affektive Phänomene in frühen chinesischen philosophischen und medizinischen Texten” (Affect or Disease? Emotions and Related Affective Phenomena in Early Chinese Philosophical and Medical Texts). Invited lecture, International Lectures Series: Chinese Philosophy and Medicine, University of Vienna (Austria), 15 Oct. 2009.
“Zwischen Normalität und Pathologie: Zur Ideologisierung der affektiven Zustände in der politischen Philosophie und Medizin des frühen China” (Between Normality and Pathology: On the Ideologization of Human Affective States in Early Chinese Political Philosophy and Medicine). Symposium Immer im Fluss: Von der Lust des Forschens und Lehrens zwischen China und Europa (Always in Flow: On the Passion of Study and Teaching between China and Europe), Institute of Chinese Studies, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg (Germany), 15 May 2009.
“Shijing zhi weizhi: Yi xinli yuyanxue lilun fenxi ‘Mu gua,’ ‘Dong men zhi shan’” 詩經之微指——以心理語言學理論分析《木瓜》、《東門之墠》 (The Shijing’s Subtle Pointers: A Psycholinguistic Reading of “Quinces” [Mao 64] and “At the Eastern Gate’s Level Ground” [Mao 89]). Cross-boundary Examinations of the Book of Songs: An International Symposium of Distinguished Shijing Scholars, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong (China), 31 Mar.–4 Apr. 2009.
“Aesthetics macabre: Tradition and Appreciation of Coffin-Pullers’ Songs in Early and Early Medieval China.” 13th International CHIME Conference: Music and Ritual in China and East Asia, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY (USA), 16–19 Oct. 2008.
“Music, Pitch-pipes, and Institutional Change: Han Politics of Music between Ideal and Reality.” XVIIth Biennial Conference of the European Association for Chinese Studies (EACS), University of Lund, Lund (Sweden), 6–10 Aug. 2008.
“The Power of Gesture: Indirection in Early Chinese Dance.” International Workshop Speech and Body in Interaction: Ethnographic Case Studies, Institute of Ethnology, Free University Berlin, Berlin (Germany), 12–13 Oct. 2007.
“Das problematische Genre: Zitat-Genealogien als Monument und Argument in Liu Xies Konstruktion des Musikamtsliedes (yuefu)” (The Difficult Genre: Quotation Genealogies as Monument and Argument in Liu Xie’s Concept of Music Bureau Poetry [yuefu]). 30. Deutscher Orientalistentag (30th German Congress of Oriental Studies), Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg, Freiburg (Germany), 24–28 Sept. 2007.
“Emotionswissen, Emotionskompetenz und Semantik der Emotionswörter im frühen China: Eine sinologische Standortbestimmung” (Emotion Knowledge, Emotion Competence, and Semantics of Emotion Words in Early China: A Sinological Position). 30. Deutscher Orientalistentag (30th German Congress of Oriental Studies), Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg, Freiburg (Germany), 24–28 Sept. 2007.
“The Body in the Mind: What Imagination, Body Knowledge, and Motor Movement Reveal about Emotion, or the Taxonomical Problem of Emotion vs. Non-Emotion Terms.” 5th International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS 5), Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre, Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia), 2–5 Aug. 2007.
“Negative Poetics: Aesthetic Skepticism and Play of the Text in Shijing Poetry.” 5th International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS 5), Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre, Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia), 2–5 Aug. 2007.
“Towards a More Rigorous Distinction between Emotion Terms and Non-Emotion Terms.” Much Talk about Emotions: What Non-Emotion Terms Reveal about Emotions, University of Naples L’Orientale, Cremona (Italy), 25–27 May 2007.
“Lachmodus und Tränenguss: Zur Codierung und Inszenierung von Gefühlen im frühen China und in historischer Perspektive” (Laughter Mode and Tear Shedding: On the Codification and Staging of Feelings in Early China and in Historical Perspective). Sinologische Vorträge (Lectures in Chinese Studies), Institute of Chinese Studies, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg (Germany), 20 Oct. 2006.
“Lachen und Weinen: Inszenierungen von Gefühlen im frühen und frühmittelalterlichen China und das Konzept der Meta-Emotionen” (Laughter Mode and Tear Shedding: On the Staging of Feelings in Early and Early Medieval China and the Concept of Meta-Emotion). Wissenschaftliche Studientagung Lachen und Weinen: Gesten, Sprachen und Tabus der verschiedenen Kulturen innerhalb einer Historischen Anthropologie, Institut für Historische Anthropologie, Freiburg i.Br., Akademie der Diözese Rottenburg-Stuttgart, Tagungszentrum Stuttgart-Hohenheim (Institute of Historical Anthropology, Freiburg i.Br., Academy of the Diocese Rottenburg-Stuttgart, Convention Center Stuttgart-Hohenheim) (Germany), 21–23 Sept. 2006.
“Reading Emotions in the Odes: Exegesis of the Kongzi shi lun and the Mao/Zheng Commentaries in Comparison.” XVIth Biennial Conference of the European Association for Chinese Studies (EACS), University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana (Slovenia), 30 Aug.–3 Sept. 2006.
“Aesthetics of Emotion/Aesthetic Emotion: Xunzi on Ritual, Desire, and Feeling, and the Intersection with Arts.” Conference on Concepts and Categories of Emotion in East Asia, University of Lecce, Lecce (Italy), 27–28 May 2006.
“Die Ordnung der ‘zweiten Haut’: Semiotik der Kleidung und Mode im frühen China.” (The Order of the “Second Skin”: Semiotics of Clothing and Fashion in Early China). Unter der Gelben Erde: Internationales Symposium zur Deutsch-Chinesischen Zusammenarbeit im Kulturgüterschutz in der Provinz Shaanxi, China (Under the Yellow Earth: International Symposium on the German-Chinese Collaboration on Protecting Cultural. Assets in Shaanxi Province, China), Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany), Bonn (Germany), 21–22 Apr. 2006.
“The Sage without Emotions: Re-reading the ‘Sheng wu ai le lun.’” Conference on The World of Thought in Early Medieval China, National University of Singapore (Singapore), 6–7 Jan. 2006. “Phantasmagorical Imagination: Or How Violent (Mis)reading Creates Early Medieval Art Song Hybrids. An Essay against Pride and Prejudice and Rape of the Text.” 10th International CHIME Conference: Exploring China’s Musical Past, KIT Tropical Theatre, Amsterdam (The Netherlands), 5–9 Oct. 2005.
“The Gaze: Body Fragmentation, Voyeurism, and Fantasy in the Early Chinese Text.” 4th International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS 4), Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, Shanghai Exhibition Center, Shanghai (China), 20–24 Aug. 2005.
“The Poetic Text as Microchiasm: Surreal Objects, Desire, and Loss in the Classic of Poetry.” Conference of the Association for Chinese and Comparative Literature (ACCL 2005), Nanjing University, Nanjing (China), 23–26 June 2005.
“Lacrimae: Weeping and Crying in Early China.” Conference on the Manifestations of Emotions and Dispositions in Chinese Sources, University of Naples L’Orientale, Vico (Italy), 10–12 June 2005.
“Macht und Massenpsychologie in China: Emotions- und Triebzynismen in kulturpolitischen Diskursen.” (Power and Mass Psychology in China: Affect and Drive Cynicisms in Cultural Policy Discourses). Invited lecture, Faculty of East Asian Studies, Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum (Germany), 26 Jan. 2005.
“New Readings of the Classic of Poetry: Antidotes to Confucian Hermeneutics”. Invited lecture, University of Naples “L’Orientale,” Naples (Italy), 27 Oct. 2004.
“Emotionalität im frühen China: Einführung in Gegenstand, Probleme und Methoden der historischen Emotionsforschung” (Emotion in Early China: An Introduction to Historical Emotion Research). 29. Deutscher Orientalistentag (29th German Congress of Oriental Studies), Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle/Saale (Germany), 20–24 Sept. 2004.
“Curiosity of the Senses: Perception Knowledge and Exploration in Early Chinese Philosophy.” XVth Biennial Conference of the European Association for Chinese Studies (EACS), Heidelberg University, Heidelberg (Germany), 25–29 Aug. 2004.
“Vox intexta: A Rhetorical and Psycholinguistic Reading of the Classic of Poetry.” 9th International CHIME Conference: Orality and Improvisation in East Asian Music, Sorbonne University, Paris (France), 1–4 July 2004.
“Touching Matters: Images of Pain in the Classic of Poetry.” Conference on Bodily Sensations and Emotions in South and East Asian Cultures: Perception of Their Connection and Distinction, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Venice (Italy), 28–29 May 2004.
“Xiang he and Qing shang Banquet Songs: A Tradition Re-visited.” 37th World Conference of the International Council of Traditional Music (ICTM), Fujian Normal University and Quanzhou Normal University, Fuzhou and Quanzhou (China), 4–11 Jan. 2004.
“Emotions, Emotion Theories, and the Languages of Emotions in Early China.” Invited lecture, University of London, School of African and Oriental Studies (SOAS), London (UK), 20 Nov. 2003. “Emotions, Emotion Theories, and the Language of Emotions in Early China.” Invited lecture, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Venice (Italy), 17 Nov. 2003.
“Im Namen des Kaisers und für das Volk: Die Verleihung der Königswürde an General Cao Cao (155–220)” (In the Emperor’ Name, on Behalf of the People: The Enthronement of General Cao Cao [155–220]). Symposium Krönungs- und Investiturrituale (Ritual Enthronement and Investiture), Heidelberg University, International Academic Forum Heidelberg (Internationales Wissenschaftsforum Heidelberg), Heidelberg (Germany), 7–9 Nov. 2003.
“Consciousness and Higher-Order Thought in the Guan Zi ‘Si pian.’” 3rd International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS 3), National University of Singapore, Raffles City Convention Centre, Singapore (Singapore), 19–22 Aug. 2003.
“Beyond Due Measure: The Abhorrence for ‘Excessive Wording.’” Biennial Conference of the Association of Chinese and Comparative Literature (ACCL 2003), School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London (UK), 6–8 Aug. 2003.
“Love and Sex Appeal in Early China (Late Zhou to Han).” Conference Passioni d’Oriente. Eros ed emozioni nelle civiltà asiatiche (Passions and Love in Asian Civilizations), Sapienza University of Rome, Rome (Italy), 29–31 May 2003.
“Self-Cultivation, Social Welfare, and Emotion Control in Pre-Qin Philosophy: Rites (li) and Mind Technique (xin shu).” XIVth Biennial Conference of the European Association for Chinese Studies (EACS), Institute of Far Eastern Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences; Institute of Asian and African Studies, Moscow State University, Moscow (Russia), 26–28 Aug. 2002.
“Desire and Sensation: Facets of ‘Female Music’ in Early China.” 8th International CHIME Conference: Sex, Love, and Romance. Reflections on the Passions in East Asian Music, University of Sheffield, Sheffield (UK), 26–29 July 2002.
“Gates to the World—Gates to the Mind: Metaphors of the Senses and Desires in Warring States Texts.” The Presentation of Emotions in Asia: Peculiarities and Analogies, University of Naples L’Orientale, Torrecuso, Benevento (Italy), 31 May 2002.
“Emotional Energy: Early Chinese Views of and Western Approaches to Emotions.” International Conference on Emotions and the Analysis of Historical Sources in China, University of Naples L’Orientale, Cortona (Italy), 5–10 Nov. 2001.
“Hot Debates on Emotions: The Problem of the Affective States in Pre-Qin and Early Medieval Chinese Political Philosophy.” Symposium Measuring Historical Heat: Event, Performance and Impact in China and the West, Institute of Chinese Studies, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg (Germany), 3–4 Nov. 2001.
“Music without Emotion: Xi Kang Meets Hanslick.” 7th International CHIME Conference: Music and Meaning in China and East Asia. Beauty, Ritual, Emotions, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Giorgio Cini Foundation, Venice (Italy), 20–23 Sept. 2001.
“Feng su Reconsidered: On Environmental Conditioning, the Ruler’s Influence, and the Utopia of Unity in Han Dynasty Texts.” 2nd International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS 2), Free University of Berlin, Berlin (Germany), 9–12 Aug. 2001.
“Deciphering the Past: Wen Yiduo on Yinyu (‘Hidden Words’).” Biennial Conference of the Association of Chinese and Comparative Literature (ACCL 2001), Fudan University, Shanghai (China), 15–17 June 2001.
“Heart-mind (Xin) Vexation and Reconciliation in the Classic of Poetry (Shijing) and the Songs of Chu (Chuci).” XIIIth Biennial Conference of the European Association for Chinese Studies (EACS), Workshop: Emotions and States of Mind in Chinese Sources, University of Turin, Turin (Italy), 30 Aug.–2 Sept. 2000.
“Vainly Wasted Many Years in the World of Theatre?—The Fate of the Spring Willow Society and the Enlightened Theatre Movement as Remembered by the Actor Ouyang Yuqian.” Audiences, Patrons and Performers in the Performing Arts of Asia, Including the 6th International CHIME Conference, IIAS, Department of Cultural and Social Studies, Leiden (Netherlands), 23–27 Aug. 2000.
“Digging Out New Meaning: On Methodological Issues of Wen Yiduo’s Shijing, Chuci, and Yuefu Commentaries.” Poet, Scholar, Patriot: International Symposium in Honour of Wen Yiduo’s 100th Anniversary, Eberhard Karl University of Tübingen, Tübingen (Germany), 19–21 May 2000.
“In Quest of Classical Harmony: The Dispute on di-Pitch-Pipe Standards Between Xun Xu and Lie He in the Last Year of the Jin Taishi Period (274).” 5th International CHIME Conference: Music in Cities, Music in Villages. East Asian Music Traditions in Transition, Academy of Music, Charles University, Prague (Czech Republic), 15–19 Sept. 1999.
“Dancing to Another Tune: Or Why Cai Yong Refused Repayment.” 4th International CHIME Conference: Barbarian Pipes and Strings. 2000 Years of Cross-Cultural Influences in the Music of China, Heidelberg University, International Academic Forum Heidelberg (Internationales Wissenschaftsforum Heidelberg), Heidelberg (Germany), 1–4 Oct. 1998.
“The Marvels of Wilderness: Poetic Encounters with Nature in Early Medieval China.” 1st International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS 1), Leeuwenhorst Congress Center, Noordwijkerhout (Netherlands), 25–28 June 1998.